Last week we covered a research project out of the University of Alberta that’s examining whether residual feed intake (RFI) in beef cattle affects other important traits. Researchers also aim to show how industry can use genomics to make breeding decisions and improve molecular breeding values.
But that’s not the only RFI project U of A scientists are tackling. Dr. Carolyn Fitzsimmons and her colleagues are also looking at how maternal nutrition affects a calf’s growth and development, plus its RFI potential.